You seem to be trapped in a pattern of behaviour that causes you
to repeat the same mistakes over and over again.

I think it's fair to say that I know you better than anyone else,
and I really feel that if only you will listen to me, maybe I can
help.

I understand that right now you don't want to listen.

I understand that you are in love, and that love is a powerful
emotion.

But I also understand that sometimes it blocks out rational
thought, and it can block out reality.

So... here goes!

The girl you've just met - I understand that she's adorable.

She's sweet.

She's young.

She seems to have a touch more vulnerability than the others.

You can talk to her. You feel maybe you can actually trust her -
maybe she doesn't just like you for your money like all the rest.

And she has character - real character. In that, she really
isn't like the others.

The sex seems all the more powerful with her because it has
emotion behind it.

But it is also because there is emotion that the sex isn't
everything. Sometimes you just lie in bed talking. Sometimes you
just want to hug her and hold her, and feel her warmth.

All the cliches you've ever heard about two souls meeting - you
begin to wonder if they're true.

And you feel like you've known her all your life.

And you can't imagine not knowing her.

You don't want to leave. You don't want her to leave. You want to
take care of her.

I understand why.

You know that she's staying in a shitty little room with only a
fan and a thin bedmat, and you don't want her to have to live like
that.

And even though she's clearly smart, the poor girl never had a
chance to even finish high school. You could give her that
opportunity.

Her parents know she works in a bar, and they take her money
anyway. How can they love her? Has anyone ever really
loved her?

You could show her love - real love.

But most importantly, you can't bear to imagine her being fucked
by a skinheaded, tattooed, football-vested moron called Neil from
Northampton, or Gunther from Germany, or Mats from Sweden.

It makes you mad, doesn't it?

And she' s so adorable, so helpless.

It would be so easy wouldn't it?

Of course you would probably have to buy her out.

But it's only 10,000 Baht.

How much is 10,000 Baht in the whole grand scheme of things?

You used to spend that in a night back home.

To you it's nothing.

But to her, it could be everything.

It could save her from a lifetime of seedy short-time rooms.

NOW STOP RIGHT THERE!

Don't you remember!

You've been here before!

You've felt this before!

And did it work? Did it?

Don't think it won't be like last time. It will be exactly the
same.

She won't like Western food, apart from the occasional Pizza Hut
pizza and KFC.

So you're going to have to eat Thai food - every day.

And not just Thai food - Issan food.

So we're talking somtam, pla ra, and every other sort of stinky
concoction. Your place will never smell the same again.

And she will eat and eat. Okay, Thai food is cheap, but she will
just eat all day long.

And if there isn't any food in the house, you're going to have to
interrupt everything you're doing and take her to buy more.

Because God forbid you don't feed her. She'll sulk and grumble
and make your life hell.

Lost, Prison Break, House, Seinfeld - remember them?

Well you'd better remember them, because you won't be watching
them any more.

Because she doesn't understand them, even with subtitles.

No, you'd better like Thai soap operas, because that's what
you'll be watching.

That's not quite true. She does like some of the Truevision
channels: the ones that play either Thai music or cartoons.

And if you don't like them or want to change channels, she will
turn into a demon from hell.

But of course you can always escape the house and spend time with
your friends, right?

Wrong.

Because Thai girls get lonely. And they are scared that
there are ghosts in your place. So they don't like to be left
alone.

But if you take her with you, she can't speak to your friends,
and she will get annoyed within about ten seconds that she's not
getting all your attention, and will make such a noise that in the
end you'll just take her home.